Word: precisionism
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The concert opened with "three short pieces to be played (without break) in the form of a suite." Moshell's intriguing idea of flanking Ravel's Pavane pour une infanta defunte by two works of Stravinsky (Scherzo a la Russe and Feu d'artifice) worked well. But there was a...
The protagonist, a young teacher named Phil Hatcher, is a compulsive player of horses, poker, craps - any ritual of chance on which he can stake his life or his rent money. His marriage goes, his career more or less disintegrates, but the "action" remains. Gambling - worked at, lovingly labored over...
What would make muons so useful as messengers is the very characteristic that sometimes annoys experimental physicists: their ability to penetrate barriers. Radio waves-especially the increasingly popular microwaves, which require line-of-sight transmission between relay towers-are essentially blocked by buildings, hills and other obstructions. Thus the ghostly...
Airlift. Barr's case was handled with typical military precision. The ambulance driver dispatched to the lake radioed the nearby Carbondale hospital that Barr's neck appeared broken. The "trauma coordinator" there arranged to airlift Barr 300 miles to Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, which has a...
Fischer decimates rather than dazzles. He builds solid positional bases from which he launches attacks that are rarely devious and almost always total. When he has white, and thus the game's first move, he almost always opens with the centuries-old PK4 (moving the pawn in front of the...